Who are the top 50 Premier League players for this 2026/27 season?
Only two days to go now until Friday night sees Arsenal v Coventry kick things off.
Naturally, there will be many twists and turns this coming season, plenty of surprises, positives and negatives.
However, what would you judge to be the top Premier League players before a ball is kicked?
ESPN have taken up the challenge, choosing what they see as the most like Top 50 Premier League players of the upcoming 2026/27 season.
ESPN explaining:
‘Ahead of what seems likely to be a question-answering and uncertainty-settling 2026-27 season, let’s take stock of the player pool. ESPN’s Premier League Top 50 is back for another year. As for who is eligible for this list: anyone currently in the Premier League and expected to play at some point over the next couple of months. As for players we haven’t seen in the Premier League yet, we’ll take a conservative and an aggressive view at the same time. The level of competition is so much higher, top to bottom, than in any other league that no new players to the league have landed in this top 50.’
I am not going to reproduce the entire ESPN list of their Top 50 Premier League players (The top five were Erling Haaland, Bruno Fernandes, Declan Rice, Bokayo Saka, William Saliba) but here are a few glaring things that stood out for me.
The top 33 in the list all play for one of of five clubs, those clubs are Man City, Man U, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal.
At number 34 you get to Adam Wharton at Crystal Palace.
Of the top 41, Wharton is the only one who doesn’t play for Man City, Man U, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal, or Tottenham.
The top 50 has so many players who in recent seasons have been taken to the six clubs listed above from the other Premier League clubs.
From a Newcastle United perspective, these are our former players on the list (no current NUFC ones are included…):
10 Bruno Guimaraes
19 Alexander Isak
33 Elliot Anderson
44 Sandro Tonali
When Newcastle United will next have a top 50 Premier League player is open to question…